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Central Station

"Between hope and solitude, two lives cross and reinvent themselves"

81
Audience
1998 · 1h 51m
Drama
Starring Fernanda Montenegro · Vinícius de Oliveira · Marília Pêra
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An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

Theatrical
Nov 20, 1998
Box Office
$5.6M
Budget
$2.9M
Return
1.9x
Director
Walter Salles
Writers
Marcos Bernstein, João Emanuel Carneiro, Walter Salles
Producers
Arthur Cohn, Elisa Tolomelli, Donald Ranvaud
Music
Jaques Morelenbaum
Studio
MACT Productions, VideoFilmes, RioFilme
Original Title
Central do Brasil
Original Language
Portuguese
Keywords
rio de janeiro letter wilderness teacher orphan railroad alcoholic missing parent long lost relative realism child trafficking death of parent road movie bus station lost child unwanted child truck stop woman and child lonely woman train station
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Cast

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F
Fernanda Montenegro
Isadora 'Dora' Teixeira
V
Vinícius de Oliveira
Josué Fontenele de Paiva
M
Marília Pêra
Irene
O
Othon Bastos
César
O
Otávio Augusto
Pedrão
M
Matheus Nachtergaele
Isaías Paiva
C
Caio Junqueira
Moisés Paiva
S
Stela Freitas
Yolanda
M
Maria Menezes
Waitress
S
Sergio Kato
Dora's Client
S
Soia Lira
Ana Fontenele
R
Rita Assemany
Jessé's Wife
H
Harildo Déda
Bené
G
Gildásio Leite
Man on the bus
N
Nanego Lira
Nordeste preacher
J
José Pereira da Silva
Dora's Client
E
Everaldo Pontes
Dora's Client
I
Inaldo Santana
Dora's Client
G
Gideon Rosa
Jessé
A
Antonieta Noronha
Violeta

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